As the trendy knowledge stack continues to evolve, knowledge groups are confronted with a problem of making certain the suitable folks have the suitable entry to the suitable knowledge. Information groups want to make sure that they will confidently determine delicate knowledge throughout their knowledge stack and defend it with the suitable entry controls, whereas serving trusted knowledge to knowledge shoppers. 

To unravel this problem for knowledge groups, Atlan is launching Tag Administration — a brand new approach for knowledge groups to handle knowledge entry throughout the trendy knowledge stack. Tags are vital metadata that may be assigned to knowledge belongings to observe delicate knowledge for compliance, discovery, and safety use instances. 

“With the launch of Tag Administration, Atlan allows bi-directional tag motion out and in of Atlan. This implies knowledge groups can begin utilizing Atlan because the management aircraft for tags, making certain that knowledge belongings tagged in Atlan are tagged and guarded in every single place within the knowledge ecosystem.” mentioned Srinivasa Raghavan, Director of Product Administration at Atlan.

One of many first Snowflake knowledge governance companions to allow two-way tag sync

With Tag Administration for Snowflake, Atlan turns into one of many first Snowflake knowledge governance companions to allow bi-driectional tag motion. So, a tag assigned to a Snowflake object will mirror in Atlan and a tag assigned to an object in Atlan will mirror in Snowflake. 

For knowledge groups which have tag-based entry management constructed into their Snowflake Information Cloud, Atlan can now change into the management aircraft for entry management administration. As soon as a knowledge producer tags a knowledge asset in Atlan or Snowflake, knowledge groups can relaxation assured that the information asset is protected throughout the information ecosystem.

This launch additional strengthens the partnership between Atlan, the energetic metadata platform, and Snowflake, the Information Cloud platform, by serving to joint prospects cut back the complexity of figuring out and defending delicate knowledge. 

“We’re excited to supply Atlan’s trendy knowledge governance and energetic metadata capabilities to our prospects,” mentioned Tarik Dwiek, Head of Know-how Alliances at Snowflake. “Atlan’s strategy to knowledge governance will assist our joint prospects get probably the most out of their knowledge.” 

“Tag Administration ranges up our best-in-class Snowflake integration, which already helps column-level lineage and native knowledge discovery for Snowflake. We’re excited to construct the way forward for knowledge governance with Snowflake and usher prospects into the information governance 3.0 period,” mentioned Prukalpa Sankar, co-founder of Atlan.

Lastly, Atlan and Snowflake’s joint prospects, like Taxfix, are excited to cut back the complexity of figuring out and defending delicate knowledge. 

“With Atlan’s Tag Administration for Snowflake, our crew can have one central residence to handle tags,” commented Roi Levoso Fernadez, Information Engineering Supervisor at Taxfix. “Bi-directional tag sync between Atlan and Snowflake will empower our knowledge producers to tag belongings the place they work and allow our platform crew to handle tags and permissions seamlessly.”

You’ll be able to be taught extra about Snowflake + Atlan partnership right here. Excited about studying how Atlan can activate metadata on the Snowflake knowledge cloud? Come discuss to us!